Cleveland Browns vs. themselves during bye week: Crowquill

(Ted Crow, The Plain Dealer) CLEVELAND, Ohio -- For the Cleveland Browns, the bye week has been anything but a respite from the troubles of starting 0-8.

This week was supposed to be about resting up from their loss to the Minnesota Vikings in London before starting preparations next week to play a good Detroit Lions team in Detroit.

Instead, this week has turned into a referendum on whether or not the Browns' owners, front office and head coach are on the same page, thanks to a botched trade with the Cincinnati Bengals for backup quarterback A.J. McCarron.

The trade was definitely botched, but was it just a mistake, was it incompetence, or was it deliberate? Any way you look at it, the…